In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
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$45,000,000
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$4,956,701
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Keywords
jewish ghetto
jewry
ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
jewish life
based on novel or book
polish resistance
hope
world war ii
radio
execution
gestapo
waterboarding
nazi occupation
concentration camp survivor
hopelessness
radio news
rumors
pow
forced labor
jews in hiding
water torture
rumours
nazi train
holocaust (shoah)
german occupation of poland
